Management software

Jun 25 posted in Development (RSS), comments.

Author: southern white

2006 JOLT Awards (http://www.sdmagazine.com) list of the winners:

Enterprise Project Management: WelcomRisk 2.6 (Welcom)

Defect Tracking, Change and Configuration Management: Perforce SCM 2005 (Perforce)

Design and Modeling: Lattix LDM 2.0 (Lattix)

Project Quality Management: Rally 5.6 (Rally Software Development)

Test Tool: VMTN Subscription 2005 (VMware)

Do not know what they look like it? Not the so-called, the tool has never lost focus on the spending, but the fancy tools may not be suitable for their own team. Wash the Scrape off the always summed up some of the most necessary , to provide the largest increase in auxiliary power tool holders.
See the "death brigade" 2nd section x s - minimal tools.

1. Version management tools

Is there any version of management, can serve as the project has not been carried out in the end there is a project management software, the dividing line gorgeous.
As it is now 2006, and we have chosen is Subversion.

Client tools: a small turtle (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/). The CVS version of the tool before and sisters killer known as the WinCVS, and the integration of right-Window Explorer, eliminating the need to run a dedicated Client tradition.

Compare and merge text tools: a small turtle in an integrated TortoiseMerge. Update and Commit In addition, the difference between View the history of versions, the combined version of the conflict is most often done, so the tools must be appropriate.

Web browser code: Trac (http://www.edgewall.com/trac/), it is entirely consistent with the standard Web version of Pleasure code display tools. The ability to easily view, Search code submitted Observation log warehouse.

If the team is still using CVS, then the corresponding package is recommended:

l Client: small turtles (www.tortoisecvs.org)

l differences tool: WinMerge

l Web browser tool code: Fisheye

l account management tool: CVSTrac

2. The project plan, task allocation, the demand for change management, Bug management tools
By accident, I found that these are completed to the JIRA.

Project planning, task allocation, progress tracking, the demand for change management, Bug management of almost all PM work.
Before there are always a lot of software to manage these issues separately, the same problem often several software Copy Paste.
However, if your project team is not XP plan style of MS Project.
Congratulations then, one will be able to complete all the JIRA tasks.
MS Project is won but the boss you love, we will make a very coarse granularity of the Project to meet the boss, meet and supervision to enable them to learn about project plans and progress. And plan the use of agile programming style, flexible allocation of specific tasks to members.

Jolt awards look set up, we can see that the N kinds of project management tools integrated into the trend, last year's "Change and Configuration Management Tools" and "Test-Defect Tracking Tool", have been merged into a "Defect Tracking, Change and Configuration Management "

3. Design Modeling Tool

While all programmers do not like anything other than code, including UML diagram. Practice has proved that agile programming but can not completely abandon the design, if the UML diagram for the exchange of pure MDA tool rather than the grand aspirations of a class of words or quite used, such as the static Class diagram and sequence diagram is what I most often paint things.

There are many star-level tools to draw these maps, but one day I found a very compact tool Jude (http://jude.change-vision.com/jude-web/index.html) can these two picture very well. We all can use the monster as the design of memory modeling tool, to find their own version of a tool pocket Linglong.

In addition, If you want to draw flow chart. SmartDraw more than I like Visio. SmartDraw because there are many colorful, good-looking color templates, ready-made things look good is also the first choice.

4. Development Environment
Not long ago, Visaul C + +6.0 is I think the best development environment, and with the IDEA and Eclipse escalating, our personal tastes and is also common to increase the degree of laziness. At the same time, Eclipse is also dependent on its formation Plugin invincible, one by one to their own style to Java, C + +, PHP, Python and Ruby and other fields, there are trends dominate the political arena.

Reconstruction (2)

Even if the team only used the most Rename, Move, Extract Method, such as a few basic moves, Java EE structure felt by too many things, the reconstruction will help you to do everything clean, so I have now formed dependence, if it is not reconstruction, not to the same thing, certainly caused by a pile of things to compile, however the failure to start or Web applications. IntelliJ IDEA as the first tool to support the reconstruction has been singing all the way to the concept of reconstruction into the JSP, XML, JavaScript and CSS, such as, it is quite clever.

Flying Error prompts and automatic correction (2)

Flying Error prompts in the Java IDE has gradually become the standard configuration, there is the wrong place immediately prompted corrections, the plot does not need to wait until a bunch of errors when compiling Show Error Message Troubleshooting slowly. Is the IDEA, prompted not only wrong, but also put forward several amendments to the optional program, you click will help you automatically correct. For example, a function will be thrown out must be checked to deal with the anomaly, if you call this function, IDEA will prompt you "is the place to call Try Catch, or a statement in the outer function Throws the Exception?" After you choose will help you auto-complete, very intimate feeling.

Smart Complete (2)

For example, now have to import myFirstBook.setPublishDate (publishDate) of this code, the previous generation of IDE in the input myBook. Will pop-up type drop-down menu shows all function Book allows you to choose.

And a new generation of IDE, AI are scary high, with a total through the variable type and name of the context to guess the content you want to enter, such as "my + hot key" will be able to generate myFirstBook, "(+ Hotkey" publishDate can generate . so the results of Smart, is the process of coding, I constantly hotkey has become completely lazy.

Debug Java EE application (2)

Web developers in general or Log4j with System.out to display debugging information, but for the programmers who program for desktop directly into the debug mode, single-step procedure to track the path, to see which variables will depend on which variable is the only right and proper thing. Slowly, this generation has been the awakening of the IDE, through integration with the Application Server can be JSP, and even third-party library source code, such as the Spring Framework in HibernateDAOTemplate set breakpoints, and then single-step, to see the changes in variables .

If The left right , IDE in other languages are difficult to meet the above requirements, may wish to wait for a powerful platform for Eclipse, a plug-uniform slowly.

5. Team IM tools, and shared folders

On the communication tools, used to be the Say that Email . With the advancement of our society, now more to promote the exchange of real-time, therefore, "Face to Face" as the first choice of the exchange of the morning 15-minute short, IM tools are equally important as a means of Email.

Speaking of IM tools, many companies would choose to MSN without serious like QQ. QQ I still like the group of features, but also to promote the exchange of real-time though, but to avoid disturbing for developers is also important, QQ new version of the "message to the news article only shows a few" can play the same role in the avoidance of interference.

Finally, Knowledge, Wiki has the advantage of a drawback - Wiki syntax. It is simple to use WordPad to write for that page in terms of the master, most people when writing documents or like WYSIWYG editor. Moreover, Wiki and html syntax is not compatible, resulting in the Knowledge Base divide the world and the Internet. Fortunately, however Cofluence 2.0 finally has seen from the editor, also abandoned the use of Wiki syntax directly edit the html.

Other items include paper, pens, white board large enough, the conference room can be used at any time. Lacking what? Automatic code generation tool is also not the most conveniently.